Jumbo Crossword - 135

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

ACROSS:
1 The rest grumble, seeing this little creature (6,4)
6 Lively Bachelor takes a chance (5)
10 I'm accustomed as provider of laughs ! (6)
16 Balladeer given upper class title in India (4)
18 Result of much distortion, my friend! (4)
19 Sounds like a pleasure trip for groups of seamen (5)
21 Possibly related to Ma Green (7)
24 This produces no capital growth naturally (4,4)
26 Signs on the back stop cultivation of roses (8)
27 Start nothing before the work-out (3)
28 To a Scot it is tea stirring (3)
30 Sort of paper obtained about quarter past five (5)
32 Starting off place for driver going to ball (3)
33 What you're bound to see in a post natal clinic (4)
35 Cautious listeners in time of strife (3,5)
37 It should prevent the motor-cyclist roaring around (8)
38 Love an odd air played for Ms Fallaci (6)
39 Tobacco pipe, short in Scotland (5)
41 Always he loses his head in the presence of royalty (3)
42 Turn at university and long for body colour (7)
45 Board has the agreement of the French and German (5)
46 Nigerian fisherman reflecting native charm (3)
48 Material cover for a cricketing fool ? (7)
50 One gets around to getting to grips with it (3)
52 List of expenses for mineral used in the original stool (7)
53 Exhausted by the President (6)
56 Criminals have method for access to ship (7)
57 Witty remark when a girl hasn't finished offering biscuit (8)
59 Promissory note given in rather curious circumstances ? (3)
62 Jack turned to Sarah at the lowest level (5)
64 Writer of some prose and some poetry (3)
65 Naif-faced, otherwise engaged (9)
67 The French are lenient if ten follow (3)
69 Regions of slave abuse ? (5)
70 Exactly the right note from Italian diva (5)
71 Hand out from some tempting packet (4)
72 Downs the salts ? (5)
74 Maid Marion twice starting to become a parent (4)
75 What Caligula's consul said when indicating reservations (6)
76 They have variety in the shades of sticks ? (4)
78 Pluck shown when one has the final piece of meat to eat up (5)
79 Break in to a politician's address (6)
82 A Spanish hero is bitter (4)
84 Declare valuable surrounds emerald core (6)
86 Starters internal adjustment to get things moving (6)
88 Buffets are popular with most people (4)
89 Ill-suited for obligations (6)
90 Some nice therapists used an anaesthetic (5)
92 Assumes they're from university (4)
94 Without Italian leader, military man would join up (6)
95 Look as displeased as a pigeon (4)
96 Romero races around (5)
97 He may be attacked by bishops (4)
99 Offence to slip on ring-road opening (5)
101 Booes musical instruments, perhaps ? (5)
103 Historic Japanese prime minister with 1920s sex-appeal; nothing more (3)
104 It is not settled how the dunce died ! (9)
107 That's enough to make one acid to be in a cell (3)
108 Like pale dam (5)
110 Manage to get potassium in east twice (3)
111 Where we can find escaped prisoners or chickens ? (2,3,3)
113 Word book for the French team to read (7)
116 The ruddy deed to do for the editor (6)
118 Girl set to clean up bad meat (7)
121 Your pithy end! (3)
123 A note on bad claret being very sweet (7)
125 Aye it's what the Scots are said to say (3)
126 Savoury mixture from Islam (5)
127 A lot of impetus is lost turning two directions (7)
129 Fun student missing the boat (3)
131 It's cold, we hear, in the country (5)
133 One in Paris provided some of the diamonds making one (6)
135 Colourless rule of a British poilitician (8)
138 Reagan proposal as a Hollywood actor was about right (4,4)
141 Lower-class irregular noun (3-1)
142 Foreigner losing points as a boxer (3)
144 Has an inclination for gardening? (5)
146 Number one in Spain - on nothing ? (3)
148 Result of getting weaving (3)
149 Casual observer turned out to be a Serb spy (6-2)
151 One giving a telling-off at college? (8)
155 Says something most unpleasant about a slut and sin (7)
156 A dialectic name for various ducks seems backward (5)
157 Singer improved a lot (4)
158 Make coffee to get a bit on the side (4)
159 Plant for Red Sea movements ? (6)
160 Reports it's very warm on board (5)
161 The upper hand taking off candy canes (10)

DOWN:
2 After homework, are to get ready (7)
3 Afternoon inspection (4)
4 Religious retreat for sailor and Turk (5)
5 Sheepish sound of the scholar leading the Americans ? (3)
6 To call back could be a bloomer! (3)
7 Church occasion coming to no warm conclusion (3)
8 Writer to pick for some trifling matter (4)
9 Credit for up-country parties (5)
11 Little laughter is heard from this brave wife (9)
12 Put an end to the cackle berry and get a tasty dish (6,3)
13 Stray direction taken by Rolls Royce (3)
14 Can be put through a sieve again and checked (12)
15 Bombers send one's bombs (8)
17 Make white line in sand (6)
20 A little Scotch (3)
21 Scored a duck? Be off with you! (2,2)
22 The extra one behind for previously unsuccessful boarders (6,3)
23 Greek letter and French article (3)
25 Prophet has to do without a pipe (4)
26 Way-out ex-British politician likely to be in the swim (3)
29 Urge a new debate (5)
31 Very bright Roman figure (5)
34 Lewis to ring half of gambling city for Sophia’s husband (5)
35 ..... the composer we rang about (6)
36 This may have you in a sorry state in a herbal sort of way,perhaps (6)
40 County bumpkin off bondage (4)
43 One apt to be recorded (2,4)
44 A preference just the same (5)
47 The ostler's bald tales as broadcast (6,3)
49 Light thrown on St. Joan (3,4)
51 Lead free (9)
53 Spotted by a mudslinger (11)
54 Handle height by going backwards? (4)
55 Many Roman are ahead of one reaching extremes of our capital (3)
56 First get a French weapon (3)
58 Companies take on doctors in a universal system (6)
60 Love to get a call while in a canoe ? (6)
61 Cut a divorcee up (3)
63 Dodging a nullity action (8)
65 Boy it's encouragement at first for Indian flour (4)
66 Feel the picture well yield a clue (6-5)
68 Lit at, perhaps, when not upright ? (5)
71 Large amount Greek character's given knight during game (8)
73 It's narrow and initially softly lighted ! (4)
77 Cheek! Old TV battle-axe to check some northerners’ English (9)
80 Get in touch with a loved one (4)
81 Greatness unfortunately makes enemies (9)
83 Measure young animal with it (5)
85 Retired detective starts with exciting xylophone duets in Casanova’s kitchen (2-4)
87 Such Rio Tinto neighbours are heartily getting us to vocalise (6)
91 What is common to both a tough, cynical person and a walnut? (4)
93 Canoe bobbing about I caught in the main (7)
97 Play the goat (3)
98 Still in ignorance, group of players is restricted by one making cuts (4,3,5)
100 See what's written concerning publicity (4)
102 Thus might boatman exclude a half-horse (6)
105 Even three points are curtailed ! (3)
106 Suffix that is right ? (3)
107 Butler gone with the wind ? (5)
109 What, say, flower was uprooted by birds swimming? (9)
111 Give firm backing to a system of worship that's mystical (6)
112 Are you up for a date with a heavenly body ? (6)
114 The irritation is in chest, perhaps (9)
115 Deter boys breaking into shellfish farm (6,3)
117 Great work from the picador (4)
119 Killed with broken nails (5)
120 All back in the wood with massive breakdown (8)
122 Turn a lock for concealment (5)
124 Wild anger of Lear's daughter (5)
128 Muddle head and bore lacking qualities (6)
130 Sort of energy required to make kit nice (7)
132 Is not curtailed in broken tins (4)
134 Young ones - of the scouts ? (4)
136 Learning to be agreeably amateur (3)
137 Writer's sources? (5)
139 Factory which doesn't go on strike (5)
140 Alternatively return with one to see the king ? (3)
143 Strike a bad turn up (3)
145 Adam's son determined to go to the end of the earth (4)
147 Spent American notes (4)
150 Where a churchman needs vision (3)
152 Express surprise if the business comes to nothing (3)
153 High class private secretary avoiding depressions (3)
154 Time for some co-operation (3)

Aries (Mar 21 - Apr 20)Old, fond memories will define your mood today, which will show up in the manner in which you deal with work, where your mellow side will be visible to others. You are also circumspect with money and tend towards saving it. Ganesha says people dealing in cash and money-lenders will benefit.